B.A., Oregon State University 1967
M.A., University of Oregon 1968
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania 1982 On the PSU faculty since 1994
COURSES:
Columbia River Basin (University Studies); Literature and the Environment; Ecocriticism (Literary and Green Studies); Contemporary Composition Theory; Practical Grammar
FIELDS:
Composition and Rhetoric; Green and Literary Studies(ecocriticism); Nature Writing; Literature of India; Epic Literature
SPECIAL INTERESTS/ AUTHORS:
Greg Jacob received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition in 1982 from IUP. His research and interest
focus on nature writing and ecocomposition. He is the author of Writing and Eco-composition, 2002. He has
received two Fulbright Awards to India: a Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar (1984) and a Fulbright Lectureship (1990).
Another scholarly interest is in the history and culture of the lower Columbia River. Author of Fins, Finns, and Astorians.
